Monocote "jig"
Hello,
I was trying to cover some elevaltor half's for a Top Flight Corsair and was horrified with the results of my first try. I Made a frame out of 1/4 sub floor sheeting left over form my field box build ($10 per half sheet at Home Despot) the frame's inside is a couple of inches bigger than the elevator half on one direction and a couple of inches bigger than the rudder in the other direction.
I now cut a piece of covering the same size as my frame, iron it onto the frame and clamp the frame to my workmate with the jaws open with the covering glue side down. Now I can push the part to be covered up from underneath while heating the covering with my heat gun. The results were good, next time I will iron on a 1/8" striparound the elevator tip wich is a compound curve.
I will post pics when the site seems to be able to show them, I am going to redo the first elevator covering job that I did without the jig.
Calvi